I'm a Windows guy trying to help a friend out.
We need to get file auditing data off the Centos 6.6 server to a central syslog server.
I found the auditd service and the audisp plugin.
I edited the ...

we have several (usually java) application and they log to centralized rsyslog server (version 7.6). We had problems with java exceptions as rsyslog was handling each line of stack trace as separate ...

I am having a hard time debugging an issue and I think it may be two-fold - problems in two separate programs.
The main issue is that I'm logging nginx to syslog on Ubuntu 14.04 like so:
access_log ...

I would like to determine what time zone a specific log is in. I found this line in the log:
Aug 29 07:07:40 gw kernel: rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2013-08-29 11:07:08 UTC(1377774428)
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I'm setting up central logging for our servers using syslog-ng + patterndb, however the logs the logging server is receiving from the client are prepended with the date, host and other data. This of ...

I've got a problem with receiving remote logs from syslog-ng OSE to syslog-ng OSE. I am configuring loghost and at now - i how no idea what i am doing wrong.
It seems like filters are not working for ...

My log is not written on the correct log file for example syslog, mail.log, mysql.log, auth.log but for some reason the latest event are written on these old log files syslog.1, auth.log.1, mail.log.1 ...

I am trying to setup a centralized rsyslog server on CentOS 6.5 for Cisco routers and switches. On the Cisco devices, I've set the correct date/time and enabled timestamps, logging to the server over ...

I have a number of remote branches (each with an IPSec site to site configuration. The main station has a Cisco 5510, the branches are each a Cisco ASA 5505. Works fine. I recently installed the paid ...

Is there a way to have a Cisco switch reveal the MAC address of a device via Syslog when it is plugged in?
I get messages that a device is connected, but there isn't a lot of detail:
Sep 9 12:50:51 ...

I'm taking syslog events from a proprietary app. This could be the app's fault or it could be rsyslogd.
Events are written like:
Aug 15 16:00:00 10.11.12.13 Event1 from this wonderful product using ...

I am in the middle of configuring a (r)syslog server as a remote server that receives logs from various clients.
I wonder whether there is a nicer way to dynamically generate multiple file names as ...

I'm trying to figure out if what I'm trying to accomplish is possible or not.
What I want is to have all my devices send logs to a syslog server, then have Splunk pull logs for everything EXCEPT my ...

I have a syslog server listening on localhost:514 as UDP and would like to write messages to it on that port. (Using Ubuntu 14.04)
If I run either of these commands this from bash it prints the date ...

i have a machine(RHEL 5.2) which receives syslog message from remote machines. And now it keeps popping message from remote machine in a ssh shell, which is annoying when i want to do something on it.
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I've been trying to configure rsyslog to forward /var/log/syslog to a remote server. I was able to do this using the below configuration.
$InputFileName /var/log/secure
$InputFileTag hostname-secure
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How can I set a custom log file for each postfix instance?
Specifically, I need to identify entries generated for different instances of postfix, and would be better for the tooling if each instance ...